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! i fpatiirfnn i I snnnrsi tlCRMIK I. v v-1 Volume 63 Issue 23 i w B UL7S) By Wyatt Brockbank a&e co-editor The Signpost A funeral for Tysen Brown will be held today aL noon. The18-year-old Weber State University student died following a car acci dent Friday night about eight miles outside of Malad, Idaho. The funeral will be held at the Willard LDS Third Ward chapel at Student ffijD m KSenate faces r mflinr shakp-i in By VVes Hanna campus affairs editor The Signpost The Student Senate of the future may lose the special constituency seats that are nowa majority of the senate if some of Monday's proposals to restructure the senate are followed. Heated debate took place on the floor of the Student Senate about proposed changes in the senate structure, and discussion carried on even after Monday's meeting was adjourned. "If changes are made the way they were brought up today, we run the risk of an elitist senate made up of white middle class students, said Donni Bird, senator for non-traditional students. 'There is a reason we have diversity here, and the changes would obliterate this." Last Thursday, the Senate as a body meet with a specialist in senate consulting, Bernard Franklin, who gave the senate many suggestions on how make the student legislative process work more effectively at Weber State University. See Senate page 3 Internationa! community By VVes Hanna campus affairs editor The Signpost International Student Senator Mohamed Ammar stood and asked the Student Senate Monday to send official university condo- . lences to the family of 36 year-old Waleed El Alawneh. a former WSU student, who died Sunday. El-Alawneh died from a gun shot wound to the head in his business Boulevard Market on 27th Street and Washington Bou Fluoridation in the water is a hot topic in the upcoming ;V election, page 11. i 1 J R T A (EDGQaSODtl '3 80 North 100 West. A viewing will be held today from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the same chapel. Brown will be buried Thursday in the Richfield Cemetery at 1 p.m. Brown, Ashley Oman and Stephanie Mayhue, all members of WSU's Chamber Choir, were traveling to Pocatello, Idaho to visit Mayhue's younger sister after the choir's dress rehearsal at WSU. See Accident page 6 "V I- Dee Hansen, student body president, stands at last week's Convocation introducing Martin Luther King III. levard, according to an article in "The Standard-Examiner." El-Alweh was lying in a pool of blood at the back of his store. "I was praying next to him in the mosque the day before he died." Ammar said. Even though we come from different cultures, I feel a connection to him." Ammar also said he had met El-Alawneh several times in passing. "He was a student here at Weber State and for that we should do something." Ammar told the Senate. "We should send a card that the family will be able to keep in Look for the i ' ,.. ; '' learn abou ; ; .'v ' Psychics, pa page T U Brown remembered By Wyatt Brockbank a&e co-editor The Signpost Tysen Brown, 18, neither got to finish his first semester of singing with Weber State University's Chamber Choir, nor did he get to serve his mission in Resistencia, liMMl reacts to death of former their house and remember him by. His family sent him here to school so it is important that they have something in their house from us." According to registration records. El-Alawneh was a student at WSU during the '92-93 summer quarter when he took 12 credit hours. He then reapplied to WSU during the 97-98 school year and was accepted but did not attend. The international students in the community and at WSU are living in fear now because they do not know why this happened, Ammar said. features section and V 1 t astrology and 8 & 9. v, . ... ' 1 .1 N V '3aadi(giJDQ5s Doff by friends, family Argentina. Brown was taken off life support Saturday morning, following an auto accident Friday night outside of Malad, Idaho. Brown was with two of his Chamber Choir friends, Ashley Oman and Stephanie Mayhue, when the accident happened. Chamber Choir member Amy See Family page 1 1 m m ne tiansen Legacy Serving his second term as student body president, Dee Hansen makes an effort to be more effective at the state level while" delegating campus obligations By Lisa Roskelley editor in chief The Signpost When Dee Hansen walks into the office it's as if the Tasma-nian Devil comes in and Bonnie Harper and Nicole Austin just look for cover until it is all over. "He's like the Tasmanian Devil," Harper said. "He walks in the office and it's like 'well, lets wait until Dee leaves so we can pick everything up.'" But Harper, secretary to the Vice President of Student Affairs Anand Dyan-Chand, is used to seeing Hansen, and actually is one of his many fans. "Dee really is a good president, because he has students' interest at heart." Harper said. "He's just such a goofball." Goofball? Maybe. Good president? Perhaps. At least he must have done something right, since he's the first student body president since 1918 to s! serve two years in a row for Weber State University. A second term has given Hansen a head-start in the eyes of many, including himself. This would be the ninth murder in Weber County this year if El-Alawneh's death is deemed one. according to an article in The Standard-Examiner. "I love atmosphere here in school but I am not feeling as safe the past two days. I will feel better after I know why it happened." Ammar was able to attend a ceremony Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. in a mosque where he and a group of other people prayed and read the Koran over El-Alawneh's body. They later drove to the airport to see the body go back to El- Lady 'Cats fell to 8-1 1 for the season after Monday night's loss, page 12. Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1 R T Y The second term As a seasoned president, Hansen has started the year off with tenacious involvement with the issue of potential tuition increases. Heading a committee of student officers from all nine higher education institutions in Utah, Hansen and WSU Student Association will be sponsoring a student rally Oct. 27 when the Board of Regents is at WSU. "He's spent a year learning and now, a year out, he's been at the forefront of issues like tuition," said WSU President Paul Thompson. This "year out" separates Hansen from many other student officials in the system. According to many administrators and students, the system is plagued by students that come in and spend their first year getting to understand all See Hansen page 14 WSU student Alawneh's family in Jordan. El-Alawneh's cousin Mazen Alawna said that contributions are still needed to send to the family back in Jordan. An account is being kept at Golden West Credit Union to help fund the continuing expenses. There will be a community rally to make the Ogden area safer Wednesday evening in the Layton City Hall on 465 N Wasatch Drive at 6 p.m. 'The whole community is working and offering help to the police to find the suspect," Ammar said. r "'""""' W - . """- i

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! i fpatiirfnn i I snnnrsi tlCRMIK I. v v-1 Volume 63 Issue 23 i w B UL7S) By Wyatt Brockbank a&e co-editor The Signpost A funeral for Tysen Brown will be held today aL noon. The18-year-old Weber State University student died following a car acci dent Friday night about eight miles outside of Malad, Idaho. The funeral will be held at the Willard LDS Third Ward chapel at Student ffijD m KSenate faces r mflinr shakp-i in By VVes Hanna campus affairs editor The Signpost The Student Senate of the future may lose the special constituency seats that are nowa majority of the senate if some of Monday's proposals to restructure the senate are followed. Heated debate took place on the floor of the Student Senate about proposed changes in the senate structure, and discussion carried on even after Monday's meeting was adjourned. "If changes are made the way they were brought up today, we run the risk of an elitist senate made up of white middle class students, said Donni Bird, senator for non-traditional students. 'There is a reason we have diversity here, and the changes would obliterate this." Last Thursday, the Senate as a body meet with a specialist in senate consulting, Bernard Franklin, who gave the senate many suggestions on how make the student legislative process work more effectively at Weber State University. See Senate page 3 Internationa! community By VVes Hanna campus affairs editor The Signpost International Student Senator Mohamed Ammar stood and asked the Student Senate Monday to send official university condo- . lences to the family of 36 year-old Waleed El Alawneh. a former WSU student, who died Sunday. El-Alawneh died from a gun shot wound to the head in his business Boulevard Market on 27th Street and Washington Bou Fluoridation in the water is a hot topic in the upcoming ;V election, page 11. i 1 J R T A (EDGQaSODtl '3 80 North 100 West. A viewing will be held today from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the same chapel. Brown will be buried Thursday in the Richfield Cemetery at 1 p.m. Brown, Ashley Oman and Stephanie Mayhue, all members of WSU's Chamber Choir, were traveling to Pocatello, Idaho to visit Mayhue's younger sister after the choir's dress rehearsal at WSU. See Accident page 6 "V I- Dee Hansen, student body president, stands at last week's Convocation introducing Martin Luther King III. levard, according to an article in "The Standard-Examiner." El-Alweh was lying in a pool of blood at the back of his store. "I was praying next to him in the mosque the day before he died." Ammar said. Even though we come from different cultures, I feel a connection to him." Ammar also said he had met El-Alawneh several times in passing. "He was a student here at Weber State and for that we should do something." Ammar told the Senate. "We should send a card that the family will be able to keep in Look for the i ' ,.. ; '' learn abou ; ; .'v ' Psychics, pa page T U Brown remembered By Wyatt Brockbank a&e co-editor The Signpost Tysen Brown, 18, neither got to finish his first semester of singing with Weber State University's Chamber Choir, nor did he get to serve his mission in Resistencia, liMMl reacts to death of former their house and remember him by. His family sent him here to school so it is important that they have something in their house from us." According to registration records. El-Alawneh was a student at WSU during the '92-93 summer quarter when he took 12 credit hours. He then reapplied to WSU during the 97-98 school year and was accepted but did not attend. The international students in the community and at WSU are living in fear now because they do not know why this happened, Ammar said. features section and V 1 t astrology and 8 & 9. v, . ... ' 1 .1 N V '3aadi(giJDQ5s Doff by friends, family Argentina. Brown was taken off life support Saturday morning, following an auto accident Friday night outside of Malad, Idaho. Brown was with two of his Chamber Choir friends, Ashley Oman and Stephanie Mayhue, when the accident happened. Chamber Choir member Amy See Family page 1 1 m m ne tiansen Legacy Serving his second term as student body president, Dee Hansen makes an effort to be more effective at the state level while" delegating campus obligations By Lisa Roskelley editor in chief The Signpost When Dee Hansen walks into the office it's as if the Tasma-nian Devil comes in and Bonnie Harper and Nicole Austin just look for cover until it is all over. "He's like the Tasmanian Devil," Harper said. "He walks in the office and it's like 'well, lets wait until Dee leaves so we can pick everything up.'" But Harper, secretary to the Vice President of Student Affairs Anand Dyan-Chand, is used to seeing Hansen, and actually is one of his many fans. "Dee really is a good president, because he has students' interest at heart." Harper said. "He's just such a goofball." Goofball? Maybe. Good president? Perhaps. At least he must have done something right, since he's the first student body president since 1918 to s! serve two years in a row for Weber State University. A second term has given Hansen a head-start in the eyes of many, including himself. This would be the ninth murder in Weber County this year if El-Alawneh's death is deemed one. according to an article in The Standard-Examiner. "I love atmosphere here in school but I am not feeling as safe the past two days. I will feel better after I know why it happened." Ammar was able to attend a ceremony Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. in a mosque where he and a group of other people prayed and read the Koran over El-Alawneh's body. They later drove to the airport to see the body go back to El- Lady 'Cats fell to 8-1 1 for the season after Monday night's loss, page 12. Wednesday, October 18, 2000 1 R T Y The second term As a seasoned president, Hansen has started the year off with tenacious involvement with the issue of potential tuition increases. Heading a committee of student officers from all nine higher education institutions in Utah, Hansen and WSU Student Association will be sponsoring a student rally Oct. 27 when the Board of Regents is at WSU. "He's spent a year learning and now, a year out, he's been at the forefront of issues like tuition," said WSU President Paul Thompson. This "year out" separates Hansen from many other student officials in the system. According to many administrators and students, the system is plagued by students that come in and spend their first year getting to understand all See Hansen page 14 WSU student Alawneh's family in Jordan. El-Alawneh's cousin Mazen Alawna said that contributions are still needed to send to the family back in Jordan. An account is being kept at Golden West Credit Union to help fund the continuing expenses. There will be a community rally to make the Ogden area safer Wednesday evening in the Layton City Hall on 465 N Wasatch Drive at 6 p.m. 'The whole community is working and offering help to the police to find the suspect," Ammar said. r "'""""' W - . """- i